Melissa Vincent

Melissa Vincent is a music journalist and researcher based in Toronto and London. Her work broadly investigates justice-oriented inquiries of intimacy, relationality and community formation as they relate to technology and culture. She is a PhD researcher at the London School of Economics in the in Data, Networks and Society program.

Melissa is a frequent on-air music correspondent for The National, the flagship news and current affairs television program from Canada’s public broadcaster. Her work has appeared in Pitchfork, Elle Canada, The Globe and Mail, Billboard, NPR Music, and The Fader, among others. Melissa was a researcher in the writer’s room for the 85th Peabody Award-winning music documentary, Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story. She has been nominated for a Digital Publishing Award by the National Media Awards Foundation in the category for Best Science and Technology Storytelling for her essay, Ethical AI Has Not Solved Tech’ s Problem With Racism.
She is a member of the Toronto Music Advisory Committee, and from 2019 to 2024, was selected to become the Polaris Music Prize jury foreperson and chair, and to join their board of directors.